[Yum] How to get yum to read package names from a file

[jim at mcconnell.net (Jim McConnell)]

> Sorry, in fact I tried "cat foo | xargs yum install"
> That fails because now yum's stdin is redirected to foo,
> and it cannot ask for confirmation.

How about:

#!/bin/bash
for rpmfile in `cat foo`
do
    yum install $rpmfile
done